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Several inconclusive skirmishes took place between the two until eventually, the
Naivasha were routed at Ziwa and chased back into the Rift Valley. Thus the Nandi had unchallenged access to the pastures and salt licks throughout the vast Uasin Gishu plateau. Cattle and captives swelled the Nandi
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Kipchomber Arap Koilege. Factions formed around the two aspirants and minor skirmishes took place between their supporters but this did not extend to full-scale war. The dispute ended with the defeat of Kipchomber Arap Koilege in 1895, after which he fled to the
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Kimnyole was blamed for not having warned the warriors who went out to raid and brought back rinderpest infected cattle. It was noted that only his cattle had not died. He was also accused of sanctioning a combined raid of Nandi
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Naivasha and Laikipia Maasai. The Nandi then defeated the remnants of the Uasin Gishu at a battle in the Kipkaren Valley, as the Maasai had tried to re-assert their claim to the plateau.
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Turukat was thus sentenced to death in 1890 and was stoned to death by representatives of some bororiosiek.
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Kimnyole in the late 1880s, starting about 1888, when disaster struck the Nandi in the form of
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that had resulted in disaster when large numbers of Nandi warriors were killed.
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Kimnyole's death led to a succession dispute between his two sons;
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who predicted the arrival of
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cattle disease which was spreading round Kenya at this time.
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with his supporters, becoming the first
Kipsigis Orgoiyot.
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